Kind of a waste to do a larger as in the drink larger. Homebrew turns out best with ales, bitters and porters. I've done a few batches of my own. I currently have some mead on the go. The ferment is so strawberry floating slow on it but I'll be racking it up next week.

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I figure if I am going to do something like make beer I will do it properly.

I dont like mediocre ales and stuff I'm all about craft beer so to have a kit where the best I can do it dull beer I wont enjoy whats the point. So instead I'll save and build a proper steel kit that is capable of making the kind of beers I enjoy drinking.

I figure if I am going to do something like make beer I will do it properly.

I dont like mediocre ales and stuff I'm all about craft beer so to have a kit where the best I can do it dull beer I wont enjoy whats the point. So instead I'll save and build a proper steel kit that is capable of making the kind of beers I enjoy drinking.

I figure if I am going to do something like make beer I will do it properly.

I dont like mediocre ales and stuff I'm all about craft beer so to have a kit where the best I can do it dull beer I wont enjoy whats the point. So instead I'll save and build a proper steel kit that is capable of making the kind of beers I enjoy drinking.

Have you ever actually been to a beer festival? Everything is in plastic kegs. There's nothing wrong with them.

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I figure if I am going to do something like make beer I will do it properly.

I dont like mediocre ales and stuff I'm all about craft beer so to have a kit where the best I can do it dull beer I wont enjoy whats the point. So instead I'll save and build a proper steel kit that is capable of making the kind of beers I enjoy drinking.

Have you ever actually been to a beer festival? Everything is in plastic kegs. There's nothing wrong with them.

Yeah loads, most use normal metal casks for Ales, metal kegs or increasingly use a key keg now which has a plastic outer casing but metalic internal bag.

Besides that is finished beer. I dont mind it being stored on plastic polypins etc. but making the beer itself is better done in steel using gas for heating as it is faster and gives greater tempurature control.

I've never seen one metal keg at any of the CAMRA festivals I've been to. Always standard plastic ones. I admire your enthusiasm, but don't let the people who've been doing this for years tell you that you need pro level equipment for hobby level brewing.

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Whilst having that kind of expensive kit would be great, do you really think you could get the same kind of quality as a craft microbrewery? Can't say I know much about their operations, but surely the kit they use to produce their beer is going to be more expensive than £800. Although obviously they need more for demand.

Fatal Exception wrote:I've never seen one metal keg at any of the CAMRA festivals I've been to. Always standard plastic ones. I admire your enthusiasm, but don't let the people who've been doing this for years tell you that you need pro level equipment for hobby level brewing.

Odd everyone I go to is metal, some in mental colours that look plastic but hey hey.

I know I dont technically need a mega kit, but although it is a hobby thing but I'm not a big fan of standard beers like bests, and general bitters. I like things with massive IBU ratings or huge hops flavors or high % and I just don't think that I will get the flavours or cleanness of taste etc. by using a plastic hobby style kit.

If I wanted to bash out some doombar grade meh average beer I would be able to use plastic kit but to make decent level beers that I would actually want to drink I would rather blow a larger heap of money on something that will get me started and allow me to expand what I can make without the need to re-buy or upgrade the kit.

SandyCoin wrote:Whilst having that kind of expensive kit would be great, do you really think you could get the same kind of quality as a craft microbrewery? Can't say I know much about their operations, but surely the kit they use to produce their beer is going to be more expensive than £800. Although obviously they need more for demand. .

You can get the same results yeah, Brew by Numbers were using a 1 keg level kit to get started until they got brewdog investment and where given the original brewdog kit.